QuickCam Pro 5000

Tom Evans tevans.uk at googlemail.com
Tue Jul 29 10:22:41 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Sean Bruno <sbruno at ignoranthack.me> wrote:
> I have this logitech webcam, it shows up in usbconfig as:
>
> ugen0.3: <product 0x08c5 vendor 0x046d> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST
> spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (500mA)
>
> I thought that this was supported by uvc(4) at one point in the distant
> past, but I can't seem to remember how to get it working again.
>
> cuse4bsd seems to load fine, but doesn't seem to be doing anything with
> it:
>
>
> root at alice:/home/sbruno # kldload cuse4bsd
> Cuse4BSD v0.1.33 @ /dev/cuse
>
>
> root at alice:/home/sbruno # /usr/local/sbin/webcamd
> Attached to ugen0.3[0]
> Creating /dev/video0

This should now be usable, eg with pwcview:

  pwcview -s vga /dev/video0

>
> Note, the webcam rc.d script doesn't seem to want to do anything on my
> machine:  rc.conf has webcamd_enable="YES"
>

Do you have

  cuse4bsd_load="YES"

in /boot/loader.conf ? Without it, webcamd_enable="YES" in rc.conf
won't do much.

Cheers

Tom


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